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Use It or Lose It
Why Your End-of-Financial-Year Budget Deserves Better Than Another Office PlantIt's that time of year again. Finance has sent the email. There's budget left. And somewhere in a meeting room across Australia, someone is desperately suggesting they...
29 Days To Make A Difference
The Best Decisions Are Made While You're Standing Still!The country's weather has forced a pause. Use it. Your team deserves recognition — and the clock is ticking on a deal worth seizing.When the storms roll in and the calendar narrows, the ...
What’s In An Edge?
You know those fluted (they’re actually reeded) edges — the little grooves around the edge of many coins? They originally existed for a very practical anti-theft reason.
Make the Moment Last
Why the best recognition programs all share one thing in commonThere is a challenge coin in a drawer somewhere that a man received twenty-two years ago, on the last day of his deployment. He doesn’t remember exactly where he put his service certi...
Message In A Bottle
We’ve been toying with a coin in a bottle as a graphic depiction of how long it took to sort our recent problems with mail server changes, that also affected our VOIP services. The idea of messages in bottles goes back centuries — part romance, part ...
Yes Size Matters (Sometimes)
When it comes to challenge coins, size definitely gets noticed.In Australia, the sweet spot for most custom challenge coins sits around the 45–50mm mark. It’s the size most people naturally gravitate toward — large enough to feel substantial in t...
Challenge Coins — The Manufacturing Process
DESIGN & ARTWORKThe process starts with a concept sketch or digital design. Artists create detailed artwork specifying shape, size typically 38–50 mm), thickness, and any custom elements like cutouts or spinning parts.DIE STRIKING (MOULD CREA...
The Quick Server Shift. Not.
Well… that took slightly longer than expected. 😅After some server-swapping adventures, our email issues are finally sorted and everything is back up and running normally again.Thanks for your patience while we wrestled the internet gremlins. ...
Wrap It Up, Boss …
The Longest Briefing After the Longest Task Force.After months of long shifts, cold coffee, takeaway dinners, surveillance logs, paperwork mountains, and enough group chats to qualify as psychological warfare, the task force had finally wrapped u...
A Job Well Done …
The certificate ended up in a drawer somewhere between an old phone charger and three dead pens.The coin? That stayed in her pocket for the next fifteen years.It started the day her Senior Officer Mick gave it to newly-minted paramedic Jess a...